Cyrus Farivar

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LA Times: “I like the company of women,” he told the New York Times in 2004. “Life is very boring without them.”

by Cyrus Farivar Some people climb mountains to achieve greatness. Some people try to win championship sports games. John Pultorak built a working replica of a 40-year-old computer. Late last year, Mr. Pultorak, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., completed a four-year project, a reconstruction of the Apollo Guidance Computer. The A.G.C. was onboard for many of the Apollo space missions from 1969 to 1972. It was the computer that Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins used in the command and…

This story is a great profile of Dawn and Drew, the top podcasting couple. If you haven’t heard their show, go download it now. Really. I bet Dawn is happy that they finally got her name right. I, on the other hand, fucked it up. My apologies again. Good job, D&D. Hope to see you in NYC soon.

Sumana Harihareswara: Science!: Consumer Reports has put out a compare-and-contrast report on the various types of contraceptives on the market today. If you are in a committed, monogamous relationship and you want to prevent pregnancy but don’t have to worry about sexually transmitted diseases, you have a plethora of options! It is kind of weird that we still don’t know why the copper IUD works. Now here’s a question I have: for most medicinal tests, don’t they have to have…

I can’t decide which I like better, the Islamic Islamicist Party (for Islam) or the United National Iraqi Freedom Party for a Democratic Iraq. Check it.

If roquefort (a kind of bleu cheese) were a character in the Mortal Kombat of flavors, it would commit a fatality every time.

“Passerby, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know that you will come – I am Cyrus, I have given the Persians an empire and I have ruled over Asia. So do not envy me for this monument.”

by Bob Dylan ‘Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. “Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm.” And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured I’ll always do my best for her, on that I give my word In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are…